Patricia Jones

Jun 9, 2024 | tullahomanews.com | Patricia Jones

Receiving a notice to appear in court can be a stressful experience for anyone, but even more so for those who aren’t fluent in English. Middle Tennessee’s exponential growth of the last decade has included an influx of non-English-speaking residents, but many courts outside of Davidson County still lack a reliable process for managing civil cases in which a litigant speaks a non-English language.

Jun 6, 2024 | mainstreetmediatn.com | Ivan Aronin |Patricia Jones

Receiving a notice to appear in court can be a stressful experience for anyone, but even more so for those who aren’t fluent in English. Middle Tennessee’s exponential growth of the last decade has included an influx of non-English-speaking residents, but many courts outside of Davidson County still lack a reliable process for managing civil cases in which a litigant speaks a non-English language. Civil cases can include evictions, child custody, orders of protection, debt and bankruptcy.

May 31, 2024 | clarksvillenow.com | Patricia Jones

Contributed commentary by Patricia Jones, managing attorney, Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands’ Columbia office. Receiving a notice to appear in court can be a stressful experience for anyone, but even more so for those who aren’t fluent in English.

Oct 28, 2023 | starherald.com | Patricia Jones

Why in the world do we have this weird holiday at the end of October where people, mostly children, dress up in costumes and go door-to-door begging for candy? Turns out it’s based on an ancient Celtic festival called Samhain. Samhain (pronounced “SOW-in”) was one of the four main festivals of the Gaelic calendar, marking the end of harvest and beginning of winter. The festival was brought to America by Irish and Scottish immigrants.

Oct 27, 2023 | electricliterature.com | Patricia Jones |Diane Mehta

Skip to content Reading Lists Diane Mehta recommends poems that apply power through acoustics and rhythm while documenting harsh histories Since Walt Whitman, the American sentence has shape-shifted in and out of forms, from race-car lyrical lines that drive off the page, to fields of hailstorm words floating in white space in a way that resembles visual art, and back to semi-formal stanzas that lilt and groove around a pentameter-like beat. I’ve designed my poetry collection Tiny...